Old configuration files - presumably not used

[xEnVrE]

While I was working on #171 (comment), I noticed that there are several files inside https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/tree/devel/iCub/conf, where ideally only automatically generated file should stay, that are not updated by the GitHub action.

I am wondering whether these are really used by some of the automatically generated models or not. As an example, I think that automatically generated models are using the file:

• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_left_arm_no_hand_for_no_hand_model.ini

while the repository still hosts:

• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_left_arm_no_hand.ini
• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_left_arm_no_forearm.ini

having their last commit 3 years ago and still using the controlboardwrapper2.

Other files are probably not required anymore:

• all the files having names like gazebo_icub_{left, right}_hand_<finger_name>.ini as the manual models have their equivalent counterparts inside https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/tree/devel/iCub_manual
• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_head.ini
• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_left_hand_mais.ini
• https://github.com/robotology/icub-models/blob/devel/iCub/conf/gazebo_icub_right_hand_mais.ini

Should we think of removing these files in order to tidy up the configuration folder?

[traversaro]

Thanks for opening this issue!

To avoid having this problem again, we should delete everytime all the files in the directory of automatically generated files.

[traversaro]

Ok, I started tackling this with:

• Move files that are mantained manually into iCub_manual #186
• Delete iCub directory of icub-models every time the models are re-generated icub-models-generator#236

Once this are done, we need to actually delete the files.

[xEnVrE]

Once this are done, we need to actually delete the files.

Ok, meanwhile I am tackling #171 so that the manually edited robot, at least iCubGazeboV2_5_visuomanip, will only use the manually generated configuration files and, newly introduced, wrappers for the yarprobotinterface plus some of the automatically generated configuration files (those that are actually used by all the other simulated robots and can be shared).